Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PREMONITION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB


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First Line: As when at mary's voice elizabeth
Last Line: That sing the present in futurity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Omens; Time


As when at Mary's voice Elizabeth
Felt in her womb the restlessness of feet
That would outrun delaying birth, and greet
Alike unseen the Conqueror of Death:
So, at the hour of midnight wakes a breath
That in the womb of darkness moves to meet
The soul of Morning, and a silence sweet
As incense tells of one that worshippeth.
Yea, life forever in expectancy
Stands tip-toe on the utmost brink of time,
Hushing the past, and listening to hear
(As poets the inevitable rhyme)
A dream's fulfilment in the echoes clear
That sing the present in futurity.





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